Is Grill’d Halal? The Honest Answer for Muslim Diners in Australia (2026)

You want a burger, your friends suggest Grill’d, and one question stops you at the door: is Grill’d halal? One website tells you the meat is halal. Another says the restaurants are not certified. So which one is true? Can you trust the chicken? What about the bacon cooking on the same grill as your beef patty? And did Grill’d really open a halal restaurant in Sydney? If your head is full of these questions, this page sorts them out with facts, not rumours.

Grill’d is not halal certified. Its beef, chicken and lamb come from halal-approved suppliers, bacon excluded, but no Grill’d restaurant holds halal certification, and kitchens cook bacon on shared grills. One Blacktown store opened fully certified in 2023. So the meat starts halal; the restaurant is not certified.

Is Grill'd halal infographic showing a burger with halal-approved meat and a not halal-certified restaurant warning

What Does Grill’d Officially Say About Halal?

Grill’d answers this question on its own website, inside its ingredients FAQ. Their words are worth reading carefully:

“Yes, all the meat we source is from 100% Halal-approved suppliers (excluding Bacon). However, it’s important to note that while we maintain high standards, we do not have the necessary certification at a restaurant level.”

Two facts sit inside that one answer. The meat supply is halal-approved. The restaurants themselves are not certified. Most of the confusion online comes from people reading only the first half of that sentence. You can check the statement yourself on the official Grill’d website.

Halal-Approved Suppliers vs a Halal-Certified Restaurant: What Is the Difference?

These two phrases sound alike. They are not the same thing, and the gap between them is the whole story.

Halal-Approved Suppliers

Halal-Certified Restaurant

What it means

The meat comes from suppliers whose slaughter meets halal standards

The whole restaurant is audited and certified by a halal body

Bacon and pork

Can still be on the menu (and at Grill’d, it is)

Not served at all

Alcohol

Can still be served

Not served

Kitchen checks

No halal audit of the kitchen

Regular audits of storage, cooking and handling

Grill’d today

Yes, this is Grill’d’s position

No (except Blacktown in 2023, explained below)

So when someone says “Grill’d meat is halal,” they are talking about the supply chain. When someone says “Grill’d is not halal certified,” they are talking about the restaurants. Both people are right. They are just answering two different questions.

The Blacktown Story: What Happened to Grill’d’s Halal-Certified Restaurant?

In May 2023, Grill’d opened a restaurant in Blacktown, in Sydney’s west, and this one was different. It was promoted as halal-certified. Bacon came off the menu. No alcohol was served. All meat came from halal-certified suppliers. For Muslim families in the area, it was a genuine first for a big Australian burger chain.

Then the story moved on. By May 2024, Grill’d’s position had shifted: halal-approved meat (excluding bacon) would be supplied to all locations, without restaurant-level certification. Grill’d no longer promotes any store as halal-certified, and the Blacktown menu today looks like a standard Grill’d menu.

So is Blacktown still certified? No current source confirms that it is. If that store matters to you, call them and ask directly before you go. Do not rely on articles from 2023, including, honestly, this one. Certification can change, and the store’s own answer is the only one that counts on the day.

Which Grill’d Burgers Come With Bacon?

Bacon is the item Grill’d itself excludes from its halal supply, and it shows up in more burgers than most people realise. These burgers come with bacon as standard:

Warning list of Grill'd burgers that contain pork bacon including Crispy Bacon and Cheese, Big Queenslander, Almighty and HFC BLAT

Burger

Bacon Note

Crispy Bacon & Cheese

Crispy bacon; it is in the name

Big Queenslander

Crispy bacon in the works stack

Almighty (The Mighty)

Crispy bacon with egg and cheese

Summer Sunset

Crispy bacon with charred pineapple

HFC BLAT

BLAT stands for bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato

Original Oscar Piastri Wagyu Burger

Crispy bacon

Oscar Piastri Chicken Burger

Crispy bacon

Limited-time and seasonal burgers can carry bacon too. Before you order anything, read the burger’s description on the current menu. If it lists bacon, it is not the burger for you, even though the beef or chicken inside it came from a halal-approved supplier.

What Can Muslim Diners Order at Grill’d?

If you are comfortable eating meat from halal-approved suppliers in a non-certified kitchen, these are the cleaner picks. None of them come with bacon:

Grill'd burgers without bacon that Muslim diners often choose including Simply Grill'd, HFC Classic, HFC Chipotle and Garden Goodness
  • Simply Grill’d — beef with cos lettuce, tomato, Spanish onion, relish and herbed mayo
  • HFC Classic — healthy fried chicken with cos lettuce, tomato and herbed mayo
  • HFC Chipotle — healthy fried chicken with chipotle mayo, pickles and salad
  • HFC Smokey — healthy fried chicken, no bacon in the build
  • Sweet Chilli Chicken — grilled chicken with sweet chilli mayo and salad
  • Garden Goodness — a vegetarian burger, no meat at all

Two honest notes. First, vegetarian does not automatically mean worry-free: veggie patties and chips cook in the same busy kitchen as everything else. Second, removing bacon from a bacon burger at the counter does not rewind the grill it was cooked on. The next section explains why that matters.

Two Things to Know Before You Order

Bacon Shares the Grill

Grill’d Kitchens cook bacon and beef patties in the same kitchen space, and bacon is a popular, high-volume item there. Staff follow normal hygiene and cleaning routines, but there is no separate halal cooking line in a standard Grill’d restaurant. For many Muslim diners, this shared-grill point, not the meat supply, is the deciding factor.

Some Grill’d Restaurants Serve Alcohol

Grill’d is a licensed chain in many locations, with wines and craft beers on offer. The Blacktown restaurant dropped alcohol when it ran as halal certified, which tells you how Grill’d itself understood the requirement. If eating where alcohol is served matters to you, check your local store, because licences vary by location.

How to Check Any Grill’d Store Yourself

Menus and policies change. These three questions take thirty seconds at the counter and give you a better answer than any website, this one included:

  1. Is your beef and chicken still from halal-approved suppliers?
  2. Is this restaurant halal certified, or is it just the meat supply?
  3. Can my burger be cooked away from the bacon, with clean utensils?

Good staff answer these without blinking. If a store cannot answer the first two clearly, treat that as your answer.

Is Grill’d Halal? FAQs

No. Grill’d restaurants do not hold halal certification. The meat (excluding bacon) comes from halal-approved suppliers, but the restaurants are not audited or certified as halal.

The chicken comes from the same halal-approved supply chain as the beef and lamb, and Grill’d’s chicken is also RSPCA Certified. Like everything else at Grill’d, it is cooked in a non-certified kitchen where bacon is also prepared.

The chicken in the Healthy Fried Chicken range comes from halal-approved suppliers. One HFC burger, the BLAT, comes with bacon. The rest of the range has no bacon in the build, but it is cooked in the same shared kitchen.

The meat itself comes from a halal-approved supplier. But the burger is prepared in a kitchen that cooks bacon, on shared equipment, in a restaurant that is not halal certified. Whether that is acceptable is a personal decision. This page gives you the facts; it cannot make that call for you.

Blacktown opened as a halal-certified restaurant in May 2023, with no bacon and no alcohol. Grill’d’s policy later shifted to halal-approved meat at all stores without restaurant-level certification, and no current source confirms Blacktown is still certified. Call the store and ask before you rely on it.

Many Grill’d restaurants are licensed and serve wine and craft beer. It varies by location, so check your local store if that matters to you.

They contain no meat, so the meat-supply question does not apply. They are still prepared in the same kitchen as bacon and meat products, which some diners are fine with and others are not.

So, Should You Eat at Grill’d?

Here is the whole answer in one place. Grill’d’s beef, chicken and lamb come from halal-approved suppliers. Bacon is the exception, and it appears in several popular burgers. No Grill’d restaurant is halal-certified; kitchens cook bacon alongside everything else, and many stores serve alcohol. One store, Blacktown, ran fully certified from 2023, but that status is not confirmed today.

Plenty of Muslim diners eat at Grill’d on the strength of the meat supply. Plenty of others skip it because of the certification and the shared kitchen. Both groups are working from the same facts, and now you have them too. Whatever you decide, you are deciding with clear eyes, and that is what you came here for. Before you visit, you can also browse the full Grill’d menu with prices on this site to pick your burger in advance.

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